[Leica] Exhibition

[don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)]

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Don
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On Mon, Nov 24, 2025, 8:43?AM Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG <
lug at leica-users.org> wrote:

> My third exhibition of photographic prints, jointly held together with my
> friend, Dr.P.Srnivasan (who exhibited B&W prints taken in the Himalayas),
> concluded in Chennai yesterday (23rd November 2025). My previous two
> exhibitions had concentrated on my wildlife photography. This one, however,
> was a departure from that norm, as clarified by my 'Artist's Note" at the
> event:
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> *"I have always been a photographer of living subjects ? people on the
> streets, as well as wildlife in remote and uninhabited places of the world.
> In recent years, I have found myself drawn to abstract photography as a
> creative medium to express myself. *
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> *The path to abstract work** was triggered by a visit to an installation
> called ?Field of Light? on a visit to Uluru in Australia in January 2020.
> It is an installation of lights spread over acres of land and so had to be
> viewed at night. We were allowed to carry a camera into the area, but no
> tripod. This made me experiment with ICM (Intentional Camera Movement)
> techniques and I was quite pleased with the results.*
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> * This also harks back to the first book on photography I ever owned,
> called ?Creation? by Ernst Haas, which, subconsciously, would have
> encouraged experimentation in the abstract form. The Covid lockdown further
> accentuated this trend into abstract imagery, concentrating not just on
> light, but graphics, shapes and textures as well. On perusing my images for
> this exhibition, I found that they worked very well when shown in pairs,
> consisting of two images which share, to different degrees, aspects of
> imagery with each other."*
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> At the inauguration/preview of the exhibition, I also released my
> first book called "Lockdown Chronicles", which basically details the
> photographs I took when India was placed under a total lockdown during the
> Covid pandemic. The foreword to the book was written by fellow Lugger Bill
> Clough, who very kindly consented to do so at my request. The book was
> formally released by my uncle, Mr.T.S.Krishnamurthy, who retired as the
> Chief Election Commissioner of India, a key post for holding free and fair
> democratic elections in the country, a herculean task!
>
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> So, here, then, is my exhibit of photographs, called ?Pairs?, where two
> images were hung together on the walls, to be viewed in relation to each
> other. I have numbered the images accordingly in the online gallery. There
> are 14 pairs in all, for a total of 28 prints:
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Pairs/
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> Please see LARGE
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> Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome
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> Cheers
>
> Jayanand
>
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